A project based at Carnegie Mellon University will study how effective games on cellphones are at teaching English to students in rural India.

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Why am I deeply skeptical of such a worthy effort? Could it be that loaning 450 cellphones to children in villages in Andhra Pradesh will do nothing to solve the problems of education in rural India? Or am I missing something here?

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